The new, male C.E.O. for EasyJet, Johan Lundgren, announced today that he voluntarily took a pay cut so that his compensation is more appropriately in line with that of his predecessor, a woman, according to a report in Travel + Leisure.

Lundgren came in at the end of 2017 as the top exec at the budge airline based in the U.K. with a salary of $1.04 million in U.S. currency equivalent, while his outgoing counterpart, Carolyn McCall, was making approximately the equivalent of $990,730 when she left the company after eight years of service.

According to T&L, the airline did not disclose McCall's starting salary.

Here's Lundgren in a statement: "To show my personal commitment, I have asked the Board to reduce my pay to match that of Carolyn's when she was at EasyJet. I also want to affirm my own commitment to address[ing] the gender imbalance in our pilot community, which drives our overall gender pay gap."

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According to Financial Times as cited in T&L, the gender pay gap at EasyJet is one of the biggest among industry competitors in the U.K.; Lundgren and EasyJet have also announced plans to narrow the gender pay gap at the company by hiring significantly more female pilots, high-paying positions, by 2020.

So let's call this an important start — both in message and in action — aimed at keeping the critical conversation going.

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